Sketchbook Assignment #22: Summer Activity

DUE MAY 12

Date shown is the date the assignment is DUE.

Assignment must be completed in your sketchbook, or you will earn a zero.  

Grades for sketchbooks will be out of 10 points and based on the following:

·  Drawing must fill the entire page (3 points). 

·  Drawing must use full color or shading. You may use crayons, pencils, colored pencils, paint, etc. (3 points). 

·  Drawing must show great attention to detail (3 points)

·  The date that your sketch is due must be written in the top right corner of the sketchbook page (1 point).

This week's sketchbook assignment: Summer Activity

This one is SO easy: Draw, collage, paint, etc. a picture of you doing your FAVORITE summer activity! The picture must take up the entire page, include yourself in the drawing, and make sure it is fully colored in neatly! This is your LAST sketchbook assignment for the school year - make it count! Have fun and be creative! 

Sketchbook Assignment #21 - Rousseau: Jungle

DUE MAY 5

Date shown is the date the assignment is DUE.

Assignment must be completed in your sketchbook, or you will earn a zero.  

Grades for sketchbooks will be out of 10 points and based on the following:

·  Drawing must fill the entire page (3 points). 

·  Drawing must use full color or shading. You may use crayons, pencils, colored pencils, paint, etc. (3 points). 

·  Drawing must show great attention to detail (3 points)

·  The date that your sketch is due must be written in the top right corner of the sketchbook page (1 point).

This week's sketchbook assignment: Rousseau: Jungle

Henri Rousseau (1844-1910) was a French Post-Impressionist painter in the Primitive style (meaning he did paintings of indigenous people and animals in their native surroundings). Despite being ridiculed during his lifetime by art critics, he became to be recognized as a self-taught genius whose works are of high artistic quality. 

Henri Rousseau

Jungle with Lion

Draw your own jungle drawing, using a full page in your sketchbook, looking at the artist, Rousseau, for inspiration. Include AT LEAST ONE animal in your jungle. Use any materials you would like to completely and neatly color it in! Have fun and be creative! :)

Student examples:

Sketchbook Assignment #20 - Design your own money

DUE APRIL 28

Date shown is the date the assignment is DUE.

Assignment must be completed in your sketchbook, or you will earn a zero.  

Grades for sketchbooks will be out of 10 points and based on the following:

·  Drawing must fill the entire page (3 points). 

·  Drawing must use full color or shading. You may use crayons, pencils, colored pencils, paint, etc. (3 points). 

·  Drawing must show great attention to detail (3 points)

·  The date that your sketch is due must be written in the top right corner of the sketchbook page (1 point).

This week's sketchbook assignment: Design your own money

1. Using the template you were given in class and as seen below, create your own money! You should have a bill and three coins (large, medium and small). Color these in using any materials you'd like. Be creative and have fun!

Sketchbook #19 - Size Relationship

DUE APRIL 21

Date shown is the date the assignment is DUE.

Assignment must be completed in your sketchbook, or you will earn a zero.  

Grades for sketchbooks will be out of 10 points and based on the following:

·  Drawing must fill the entire page (3 points). 

·  Drawing must use full color or shading. You may use crayons, pencils, colored pencils, paint, etc. (3 points). 

·  Drawing must show great attention to detail (3 points)

·  The date that your sketch is due must be written in the top right corner of the sketchbook page (1 point).

This week's sketchbook assignment: Size Relationship

1. Choose TWO objects which have a relationship to one another but are NOT the same size at all (like the front door and the key; or an apple and the fridge; or a bug and a plant).

2. Draw the two different sized objects as if their sizes have been switched or they are the same size - the key is now as big as the front door; the apple is so big it fills the inside of the fridge; the bug is now larger than the plant. 

3. Color picture in using any materials you'd like. 

Be inventive! Think up your own two related objects (or use one of my examples) and observe & draw their details carefully.

Sketchbook Assignment #18 - O'Keefe: Close-up of Flower

DUE APRIL 14

Date shown is the date the assignment is DUE.

Assignment must be completed in your sketchbook, or you will earn a zero.  

Grades for sketchbooks will be out of 10 points and based on the following:

·  Drawing must fill the entire page (3 points). 

·  Drawing must use full color or shading. You may use crayons, pencils, colored pencils, paint, etc. (3 points). 

·  Drawing must show great attention to detail (3 points)

·  The date that your sketch is due must be written in the top right corner of the sketchbook page (1 point).

This week's sketchbook assignment: O'Keefe: Close-up of Flower

Georgia Totto O'Keeffe (November 15, 1887 – March 6, 1986) was an American artist. She is best known for her paintings of enlarged flowers, New York skyscrapers, and New Mexico landscapes. O'Keeffe has been recognized as the "Mother of American modernism"

Georgia O'Keefe

Light of Iris, 1924, Oil on canvas

Pink Tulip, 1926, Oil on canvas

Red Poppy, 1927, Oil on canvas

1. Find a picture of a flower, a fake flower or a real flower that you would like to draw close-up. 

2. Looking at this flower and filling up the sketchbook page, draw the whole flower or just part of the flower in pencil. Think of it like you're looking through a magnifying glass or taking a really close-up picture with a camera. The flower should fill the page. 

3. Color it in with your choice of materials. 

Sketchbook Assignment #17 - Drawing Materials

DUE MARCH 31

Date shown is the date the assignment is DUE.

Assignment must be completed in your sketchbook, or you will earn a zero.  

Grades for sketchbooks will be out of 10 points and based on the following:

·  Drawing must fill the entire page (3 points). 

·  Drawing must use full color or shading. You may use crayons, pencils, colored pencils, paint, etc. (3 points). 

·  Drawing must show great attention to detail (3 points)

·  The date that your sketch is due must be written in the top right corner of the sketchbook page (1 point).

This week's sketchbook assignment: Drawing Materials

1. Choose at least 3 different art materials (ideas: paintbrush, pencil, pen, marker, crayon, colored pencil, watercolors, oil pastels, eraser, glue, scissors, etc) and set them up in a still-life. 

2. Draw these materials as large as you can in pencil. 

3. Color your drawing in with any material(s) you like. I used markers and some outlining with thin Sharpie. 
  

Sketchbook Assignment #16 - Matisse Still-life

DUE MARCH 24

Date shown is the date the assignment is DUE.

Assignment must be completed in your sketchbook, or you will earn a zero.  

Grades for sketchbooks will be out of 10 points and based on the following:

·  Drawing must fill the entire page (3 points). 

·  Drawing must use full color or shading. You may use crayons, pencils, colored pencils, paint, etc. (3 points). 

·  Drawing must show great attention to detail (3 points)

·  The date that your sketch is due must be written in the top right corner of the sketchbook page (1 point).

This week's sketchbook assignment: Matisse Still-life

Henri Matisse (1869 - 1954) was a French artist, known for his use of color. He was not worried about making his paintings look real, but rather that they had interesting arrangements of colors and shapes.

1. Start with drawing a vase and flowers. Add a circle for the table. Add the room lines. Draw simple flowers in the vase.Try to make the art look flat, rather than 3D, because that is what Matisse liked to do. Trace your lines with black permanent marker. 

2. Use crayons to color to color the flowers and leaves. Draw different line patterns on all the other surfaces. Keep them large and simple. 

3. Use watercolor paint to fill in all the areas. 

  

Sketchbook Assignment #15 - Thiebaud: Favorite Dessert

DUE MARCH 17

Date shown is the date the assignment is DUE.

Assignment must be completed in your sketchbook, or you will earn a zero.  

Grades for sketchbooks will be out of 10 points and based on the following:

·  Drawing must fill the entire page (3 points). 

·  Drawing must use full color or shading. You may use crayons, pencils, colored pencils, paint, etc. (3 points). 

·  Drawing must show great attention to detail (3 points)

·  The date that your sketch is due must be written in the top right corner of the sketchbook page (1 point).

This week's sketchbook assignment: Thiebaud: Favorite Dessert

Wayne Thiebaud (born November 15, 1920) is an American painter widely known for his colorful works depicting commonplace objects—pies, lipsticks, paint cans, ice cream cones, pastries, and hot dogs—as well as for his landscapes and figure paintings.

Cakes, 1963, Oil on canvas

 Cakes, 1963, Oil on canvas

Three Machines, 1963, Oil on canvas

1. Decide on your favorite dessert. Think about how Thiebaud painted his desserts not only once, but many times in the same painting, sort of like a display in a store (see examples above). 

2. Draw your favorite dessert AT LEAST three times. Don't forget a background! 

3. You may color the desserts differently or the same. 

4. You may use any art materials you would like to color this assignment. I used crayons to color in mine.  

Sketchbook Assignment #14 - 20 year portrait

DUE MARCH 10

Date shown are the dates the assignment is DUE.

Assignment must be completed in your sketchbook, or you will earn a zero.  

Grades for sketchbooks will be out of 10 points and based on the following:

·  Drawing must fill the entire page (3 points). 

·  Drawing must use full color or shading. You may use crayons, pencils, colored pencils, paint, etc. (3 points). 

·  Drawing must show great attention to detail (3 points)

·  The date that your sketch is due must be written in the top right corner of the sketchbook page (1 point).

This week's sketchbook assignment: 20 year portrait

1. Sketch yourself as you think you would look in 20 years! What would you look like? What would you be wearing? What job would you have? Where would you be living? Draw all of it!

2. Add color with your choice of materials. The portrait can be full body or from the shoulders up. Have fun!

Sketchbook Assignment #13 - Favorite Artist

DUE FEBRUARY 25

Date shown are the dates the assignment is DUE.

Assignment must be completed in your sketchbook, or you will earn a zero.  

Grades for sketchbooks will be out of 10 points and based on the following:

·  Drawing must fill the entire page (3 points). 

·  Drawing must use full color or shading. You may use crayons, pencils, colored pencils, paint, etc. (3 points). 

·  Drawing must show great attention to detail (3 points)

·  The date that your sketch is due must be written in the top right corner of the sketchbook page (1 point).

This week's sketchbook assignment: Favorite Artist

1. Time to give props to your favorite artist! You may copy a piece of art by your favorite artist OR come up with your own piece of art done in the STYLE of your favorite artist. 

"Starry Night", Vincent Van Gogh, 1889

2. You may complete this assignment using any material or combination of materials you would like. I used colored sharpies and crayons for mine. 

Sketchbook Assignment #12 - Fruit Still-life

DUE FEBRUARY 18

Date shown are the dates the assignment is DUE.

Assignment must be completed in your sketchbook, or you will earn a zero.  

Grades for sketchbooks will be out of 10 points and based on the following:

·  Drawing must fill the entire page (3 points). 

·  Drawing must use full color or shading. You may use crayons, pencils, colored pencils, paint, etc. (3 points). 

·  Drawing must show great attention to detail (3 points)

·  The date that your sketch is due must be written in the top right corner of the sketchbook page (1 point).

This week's sketchbook assignment: Fruit Still-life

A "still-life" is a work of art depicting mostly inanimate objects, typically every day items that are either natural (food, flowers, plants, rocks or shells) or man-made (drinking glasses, books, vases, jewelry, coins, pipes, etc.).

Still life with Apples (artist unknown)

Still life with Lemons in a Silver Bowl and Lemon Quarter, Oil paint on Poplar, Artist: Jessica Brown

1. Put together a still-life of at least 3 pieces of fruit or vegetables. You can set them on a table, in a bowl, in a vase, try setting them up at different levels (two on a table, one on a box). Get creative!

2. Sketch your still-life with pencil. Try your best to draw big! 

3. Continuing to look at the still-life, color your sketch in using your choice of materials. I colored mine in with crayons. 

4. While coloring, don't forget to use value (lights and darks). Sometimes it helps to squint your eyes while looking at the still-life to find the light and dark areas. 

5. Don't forget to color in the table and the wall (my table is gray and my wall is blue). 

6. Rather than using black for all the dark areas and shadows, try using blue for the shadows or complementary colors (green/red; blue/orange; purple/yellow). 

Sketchbook Assignment #11 - Robert Indiana "Love"

DUE FEBRUARY 11

Date shown are the dates the assignment is DUE.

Assignment must be completed in your sketchbook, or you will earn a zero.  

Grades for sketchbooks will be out of 10 points and based on the following:

·  Drawing must fill the entire page (3 points). 

·  Drawing must use full color or shading. You may use crayons, pencils, colored pencils, paint, etc. (3 points). 

·  Drawing must show great attention to detail (3 points)

·  The date that your sketch is due must be written in the top right corner of the sketchbook page (1 point).

This week's sketchbook assignment: Robert Indiana "Love"

Robert Indiana (born September 13, 1928) is an American artist associated with the Pop Art movement. Indiana's best known image is the word "love" in upper case letters, arranged in a square with a tilted letter "O". 

Robert Indiana, "LOVE", 1968, Aluminum 


1. Start by using a ruler to make 2 rows of 3 inch boxes. 

2. Draw the block letters, one in each box, as shown.

3. Add diagonal lines to begin making your block letters look three-dimensional.

4. Now finish your 3-d block letters as shown.  

5. Trace over your boxes and letters using black marker.  

6. Using crayons, color the block letters with one color, pressing hard for dark areas and lightly for lighter areas (the sides of the letters).

7. Finish by choosing two colors of crayon for the squares and alternate their placement, as shown. Don't forget to add the title "Robert Indiana, born 1928 American Pop Artist" in marker to complete your assignment. Nice job!